Bill-file and paper-holder.



No. 729,301. PATENTED MA'Y"26,1903'.

I M mucxsou BILL FILE AND PAPER HOLDER.

APPLIUAJIIO-N FILED OCT. 30, 1902.

K0 MODEL.

, UNITED STATES F'atented May 26, 1903.

JOHN M. ERIOKSON, OF DULUTH, MINNESOTA.

BILL-FILE AND PAPER-HOLDER.

sPEcrFwATIoNrermin part o Letters Patent No 729,301, dated ivr 26,1903.Application filed October 30, 1902. Serial No. 129,441. (No model.)

. full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as willenable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and usethe same.

My invention is an improved bill-file and paper-holder; and it consistsin the peculiar construction and combination and arrangement of deviceshereinafter described and claimed.

The object of my invention is to provide a cheap and simple article ofthe class described which may be used either on a desk, table,

or show-case without danger of-injury there-- to and which is alsoadapted to be hung ina vertical position against'a wall or article offurniture. p

A further object of my invention is to provide improved retaining meanswhich while preventing any of the papers on the file frombecomingaccidentally disengaged therefrom permits the ready removal of thepapers when the same is desired.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective View of animproved bill-file and paper-holder embodying my invention, showing thesame in a horizontal position, as when used on a table, desk, orshow-case; and Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the same in a verticalposition and hung against a wall or other object.

In the embodiment of my invention I provide a base 1, which is hereshown as comprising a number of radially-disposed arms 2 andasuspending-arm At the intersection of the said arms at the center ofthe base is an outwardly or upwardly projecting filingspur 4:, the pointof which is sharpened, as at 5, to enable papers to be readily placedthere'- on. The arm 3 is provided at its outer end with an eye or loop5, whereby it may be hung from a hook, nail, or peg, as shown in Fig. 2,and an arm 6, which is parallel with the filing-spur, projects outwardlyor upwardly from-the arm 3,-near the outer end thereof. V

In practice and as here shown the base, including the arms 2 and 3,together with the filing-spur and parallel arms 6, are formed from asingle piece of wire, the same being bent appropriately, as shown, andhaving retaining-coils 7 bent therein at the intersection of the arms 23. Furthermore; the eye 5 is bent at the outer end of the arm 3, and itsinner side is closed by a coil 8, which is at the base of the parallelarm 6. The latter is formed at its outer or upper end with aretaining-head 9, bent to one side thereof. On the parallel arm 6 ispivotally and slidably mounted a retaining-hook 10. Thelatter is hereshown as formed of a single piece of .wire bent at one end to formpivotal coils 11, which encircle and are adapted to slide and turn onthe supporting parallel arm 6, and

also bent to form the arm 12 or body of the hook and oppositelydisposedlateral arms '13 14. near the outer end of the hook, between whichlateral arms is formed a loop 15 for engagement with the filing-spur.

It will be understood that before placing a paper on the file theretaining-hook will be swung to one side and that after the paper hasbeen placed on the spur 4the hook will have its loop 15 engaged withthe-said spur, so that the hook will lie upon the mass of papers onthefile and retain them in secure position thereon.

From the foregoing description, taken in connection with theaccompanying drawings, the construction, operation, and advantages of myinvention will be readily apparent, it is thought, without requiring amore extended explanation.

Various changes in the form, proportion, and the minor details ofconstruction may be resorted to without departing from theprinci'ple orsacrificing any of the advantages of this invention. Y

' Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim asnew, anddesire to protect by Letters Patent, is

1. In a file of the class described, a base having a filing-spur and asupporting-arm, in combination with a retaining device pivotally andslidably mounted on the said supnor'ting-arm and having a clasp toengage the filing-spur, substantially as described.

2. A file of the class described, comprising a base having a filing-spurand a supportingarm projecting from one side thereof and aretaining-hook pivotally and slidably supported on the said arm, thesaid hook having lateral extensions near its free end, and a loop toengage the filing-spur, substantially as described.

Afilehavingradially-disposed base-arms 2, a suspending-arm 3, coils 7 atthe intersection of said arms, a filing-spur 4 and a supporting-arm 6,all bent from a single piece of wire, and a retaining-hook pivotally and

